Historical plant sales (HPS) database: Documenting the spatiotemporal history of plant sales in the conterminous U.S.

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Authors

Matthew Fertakos, University of Massachusetts AmherstFollow
Evelyn M. Beaury, Princeton University
Neil R. Ford, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Nicole L. Kinlock, University of Konstanz
Denise W. Adams, Independent Researcher
Bethany Bradley, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8121-0039

Publication Date

2023

Keywords

Biodiversity heritage library, horticulture, introduced plants, invasive plants, native plants, nursery sales, ornamental plants

Disciplines

Horticulture | Other Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Description

The purpose of this database was to extract, standardize, and geocode the historical trade of vascular and non-vascular plant taxa sold in the horticultural industry of the conterminous United States. The HPS database aims to serve as a resource for analysis of contemporary patterns of introduced and invasive plants as well as for identifying opportunities to expand native plant sales in horticulture. Key data sources that make up this database include the Biodiversity Heritage Library's Seed and Nursery Catalog Collection, and the book Restoring American Gardens by D.W. Adams.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7275/0t5v-5r18

Grant/Award Number and Agency

This research was supported by Grant No. G19AC00091 from the U.S. Geological Survey Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center graduate fellowship awarded to M. Fertakos, a National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship Grant number 1451512 awarded to E. Beaury, and the Center for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (CAFE) Summer Scholars program supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station and the Department of Environmental Conservation under Project No. MAS00033 awarded to N. Ford. N. Kinlock is funded by the German Research Foundation DFG (Grant No. 432253815).

Comments

Two versions of this dataset are available

HPSv1.0 and HPSv1.1

Both versions are included in the main download and the individual versions are also available.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication 1.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Fertakos, Matthew; Beaury, Evelyn M.; Ford, Neil R.; Kinlock, Nicole L.; Adams, Denise W.; and Bradley, Bethany, "Historical plant sales (HPS) database: Documenting the spatiotemporal history of plant sales in the conterminous U.S." (2023). Data and Datasets. 166.
https://doi.org/10.7275/0t5v-5r18 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/data/166